Dmitry Peskov

“Peskov's profile and assets on Russian Asset Tracker”

“If a Russian spokesman (e.g. Dmitri Peskov) must be cited, it must be mentioned that this specific figure has lied about every aspect of this war since it began. This is context. Readers picking up the story in the middle need to know such background.”

“Peskov has been one of the key implementers of the Kremlin’s standard disinformation playbook of denial, lies, and obfuscation.”

“The tragedy is that these lies aren't meant to be believed. What they're meant to do is they're meant to convince Russians that there is no such thing as the truth and that everybody's as bad as the other.”

“Our presidential election is not really democracy, it is costly bureaucracy... Mr. Putin will be re-elected next year with more than 90% of the vote.”

“Although elections are a requirement of democracy and Putin himself has decided to hold them, theoretically it’s possible not to hold them, Because it’s already obvious that Putin will be elected.”

“We just want to control all the land we have now written into our constitution as ours.”

“There are currently no grounds for an agreement. We will continue the operation for the foreseeable future.”

“Russia does not strike at civilian infrastructure.”

“Ukraine was heavily militarized at the time of the start of the [special military operation]. And, as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin said yesterday, one of the tasks was the demilitarization of Ukraine. In fact, this task has been largely completed. Ukraine is using less and less of its weapons. And more and more it uses weapons systems supplied to it by Western countries.”

“If a company doesn’t fulfil its obligations, then, of course, it goes in the category of naughty companies. We say goodbye to those companies. And what we do with their assets after that is our business.”

“Waging war is a completely different thing. It entails total destruction of infrastructure, complete destruction of cities. We’re not doing that.”

“Russians don’t wage war. We’re trying to preserve infrastructure and human lives.”

“You should rely only on the data published by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.”

“We will continue to consult with the people who live in those regions.”

“Not at this point. No, we are not discussing that.”

“The operation is being conducted as planned, its goals will be achieved.”

“The creation of a demilitarised zone around the ZNPP [Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant] is not being considered.”

“Russian Armed Forces do not work with civilian targets.”

“We will never trust the West again.”